A volcano could erupt in Iceland within hours. Experts say you shouldn't cancel your flights — yet

• An Icelandic volcano could erupt within hours or days, the country's Met office said.
• The small town of Grindavik has been evacuated after shifting magma caused around 1,000 earthquakes in the area.
• But that shouldn't affect your travel plans, though the Blue Lagoon may be off-limits, experts said.

There's no reason to cancel your travel plans to Iceland, despite the country warning of potentially dangerous volcanic activity happening within the next few hours or days, experts told Insider.

"If I was a tourist thinking of going to Iceland, I wouldn't think twice, I would go," Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist from the University of Lancaster who studies Iceland volcanoes, told Insider.